Man Niang slanders Ting Ye in public and—because of the rumours—Qi Heng files a complaint against Ting Ye with the emperor. Ting Ye realizes there are other reasons behind Qi Heng's complaints so confronts him. Ting Ye shows the wound Man Niang gave him in trying to kill him and the emperor banishes her from the city. Having his men follow Man Niang, he discovers something about Chang'er. Ming Lan goes back to Sheng house for a reunion banquet and things become uncomfortable when Mo Lan wants to celebrate her mother's death.
(Source: frankly at MyDramaList)
So Qi Heng still hv grudge to Ting Ye bcs he got minglan? Or he was worry that ting ye didn't treat her right so he tried to get her back by targeting ting ye?. Wow... Ting Ye directly went to him and called him out. Keep convincing yourself, Yuanruo. His wife shld hv listened to their conversation. Yes minglan slap that bitch!! It must broke his heart so much, the one he had been looking for was really dead. Dammn Rulan really had it for Molan... Coz that was so... Insulting. Get that foolish Big Madam for me, Grandma! Molan poked that bear until its claws came out. I hv to say, when Ming Lan threw her chopsticks to the side, I was shock and like AMAZING DO IT AGAIN!
1)Miniang (being intelligent) chooses her next tactic which is to publicly denounce Gu Ting Ye and accuse him of every kind imaginable, including raping her and abandoning her. At court the next day, Yuan Ruo accuses Gu Ting Ye publicly for immorality. This earns Gu Ting Ye another lecture by the emperor in private. Gu Ting Ye defends himself and reminds him that they met BECAUSE of Miniang's evil actions. The emperor makes it clear that there are things he can no longer do and that he basically needs to have a care for his image. After he tells him he was stabbed, he states he did not bring her to the local court in order to avoid escalating it and playing into the Empress Dowager's hands. Prince Huan suggests that they drive her out of the capital (as a sub plan between him and Gu, they can follow her to locate his son). THEY CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT EMPRESS DOWAGER IS ACTIVELY PLOTTING AGAINST THE EMPEROR.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................2)Evil MIL is excited because she plans on using the powerful hand of the empress dowager, who views Gu Ting Ye as an obstacle, to eliminate him. She is smart, I credit her that, but her ways are so lacking! Also, her arrogance is somewhat grating......................................................................................................................................................................................................3)Gu Ting Ye goes to visit the Duke of Qi in hopes of seeing Yuan Ruo. In a humorous display, he finds a sham excuse to break in and circumvent the pleasant 'Yuan Ruo is too busy to see you' niceties . He is direct with Yuan Ruo and acknowledges that they are currently rivals. Yuan Ruo tells him he is merely doing his job : exposing misdeeds. Gu Ting Ye tells him that no matter how much he hates him (personally) he will never have Ming Lan. This makes Yuan Ruo angry and he says that ha nothing to do with this. But Gu says he has always had a bad reputaiton, no one had a complaint, or filed one, until now. Why is that? He basically makes it clear he believes that Yuan Ruo is behaving foolishly, that he is allowing his personal jealousy to cloud his judgment, and that he is being manipulated (but he didn't say this bit directly it is basically implied). Gu Ting Ye makes it clear to him that he shoud have sought her out immediately--Gu would have never made it her wait, or allowed time to pass if there was a chance--he reminds him again that he is being selfish because not everyone will wait for him.................................................................................................4)O H MY GOD they follow Miniang and it is to a GRAVE!!! She is burning paper and yelling at the grave, accusing the child of dying. But when Gu Ting Ye arrives, she tells him that their child died from sickness from not having enough medicine. While Gu yells at her Ming Lan digs and learns that the soil is old--meaning she basically believes a body is there. In a panic Gu has the body dug up (he is furious and panicky and scared) he digs with his hands and Ming Lan does something rare and slaps another person(!) (OMG this is so damn sad) He finds the bones of his son. (the acting for this scene is so believable). He is angry and in shock and tells Miniang she will never see Rong'er and if she enters the city again he will basically end her. She is to be taken to a village, watched, to live. Only affter doing this does he collapse and cry and cry buckets of tears while Ming Lan just is there for him.................................................5)The ladies all squeeze and hug the baby of eldest Sheng son. Even Mo'er is there, looking quiet and jealous. Big Madame, predictably, uses this as a chance to lay in on Mo'er by congratulating Ming Lan for her handling of the incident with Miniang, and Rulan follows suit (this is tactless). Mo'er is then sent to visit her father and she tires to invite the other two sisters but they both ignore this request (that has to sting for Mo'er, on the one hand I feel bad for her, but on the other hand, there is no way of knowing what kind plots she has afoot she is untrustworthy)............6)Afterwards Old Madame lectures Big Madame for allowing her elder sister Kang to beg favors when Ming Lan hasn't even got her footing yet in the Gu household. Later, there is a family dinner with Mo'er and her husband present, Min Lan, Rulan and Big Madam. Mo'er tries to use this as an opportunity to have her mother's funeral tablet brought back. Her father ignores her repeatedly. Big Madame says that she wouldn't allow someone dirty in the house (so now the husband of Mo'er knows something happened, he just doesn't know what). .........................................7)Ming Lan essentially makes a subtle comment that she does not support this by reminding her father that her mother's tablet is out there (i.e. you would have her next to her murderer?). Mo'er attacks head on and accuses Ming Lan of using her status to control things they should let their father decide. Ming Lan is chastised soundly by her father (you have to watch the scene the word play is great) and Ming Lan becomes so angry that she announces out loud that her mother killed her mother and repports she has witnesses, and she will bring this matter to the Kaifeng precenct if they allow her to bring the funeral tablet back. Her father accuses Ming Lan of trying to ruin the family rep. Servants are sent out.